Lung cancer comes in two main types: non-small cell and small cell. Each has different patterns, growth rates, and treatment needs. Smoking is the top risk factor, but…
Harry Erba, MD, PhD, Duke University, Durham, NC; Marina Konopleva, MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City, NY; Thomas Cluzeau, MD, PhD, Central University Hospital…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Despite tradeoffs in visual acuity, patients with ocular melanoma near the optic nerve benefit from proton beam radiotherapy in terms of eye conservation…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Isolated quadriceps training improves muscle structure and oxygen utilization in patients with chronic heart failure, thereby improving exercise tolerance, an Italian team reports…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A large increase in the number of lymph nodes evaluated during surgery for colon cancer — a quality improvement metric– has not had…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Patients undergoing surgery for spinal metastases at teaching hospitals in July have higher mortality and complication rates than similar patients treated in other…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Escherichia coli is responsible for an increasing proportion of urinary tract infections and is showing more resistance to antimicrobials, Irish researchers report in…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Endoscopic ablation of Barrett’s esophagus can bury metaplastic glands under a layer of neosquamousepithelium. However, how often this happens and its importance still…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A Danish study indicates that among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention, the use of zotarolimus-eluting stents (ZESs) rather than sirolimus-eluting stents (SESs) is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Administering 17-alpha-hyroxyprogesterone caproate to women with multiple pregnancy does not reduce the preterm birth rate or consequent neonatal morbidity, a Dutch study has…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Vascular access in patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is more reliably and rapidly obtained via needle insertion into the marrow cavity of the…
Yaw Donkoh, MD, of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, discusses what pain medicine is, what type of practitioners practice it and what’s hot in the field. For…
